"USA : Literatur." . . "Literatura nord-americana." . . "stereotypiat." . . "American literature." . . "Svarta." . . "Bellettrie." . . "White in literature." . . "White in literature" . "Literatura nord-americana Escriptors afroamericans Història i crítica." . . "Roman américain Thèmes, motifs." . . "Littérature américaine Auteurs blancs Histoire et critique." . . "Afroamericanos en la literatura." . . "Verenigde Staten." . . "Raza blanca en la literatura." . . "Afroamericani (popolo) letteratura americana (Stati Uniti)" . . "Afroamerikanere" . . "Afro-Americans in literature." . . "Engelsk litteratur" . . "American literature White authors History and criticism." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Miśḥaḳim ba-afelah : loven ha-ʻor ṿeha-dimyon ha-sifruti" . "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the \"Africanist\" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature. \"By going for the American literary jugular ... she places her arguments ... at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly ... reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.\""@en . "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the \"Africanist\" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature. \"By going for the American literary jugular ... she places her arguments ... at the very heart of contemporary public conversation about what it is to be authentically and originally American. [She] boldly ... reimagines and remaps the possibility of America.\"" . . . . "Playing in the dark : whiteness and literary imagination"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Playing in the dark"@it . . . . . . . . "Meśaḥaḳim ba-afelah" . . . "A partir d'exemples pris dans la littérature des Etats-Unis (chez Melville, Twain, W. Cather, Poe, Hemingway, H. James, Faulkner), l'auteure s'interroge sur la place du personnage noir, sur la façon dont se constituent la \"blancheur littéraire\" et la \"noirceur littéraire\" et se penche sur les conséquences de cette construction. L'ouvrage est dérivé de conférences prononcées à Harvard." . . . . . . . . . . . "Im Dunkeln spielen : weisse Kultur und literarische Imagination : Essays" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Playing in the dark : blancheur et imagination littéraire" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Soittoa pimeässä : valkoihoisuus ja kirjailijan luova mielikuvitus" . "Soittoa pimeässä : valkoihoisuus ja kirjailijan luova mielikuvitus"@fi . . . . . "Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination" . . "Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination"@en . "Miśḥaḳim be-afelah" . "اللهو في العتمة : البياض والمخيلة البشرية" . . . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . . "Spelen in het donker : de blanke literaire verbeelding" . . "Miśḥaḳim ba-afelah : loven ʻor ṿeha-dimyon ha-sifruti" . . . . . . . . . "Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to \"put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature ... draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest.\" Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature--individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell--are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of Huckleberry Finn. A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction. Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature." . . "Jouer dans le noir : blancheur et imagination littéraire" . "Giochi al buio"@it . "Giochi al buio" . "Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination ; the William E. Massey Sr. lectures in the history of American civilization 1990" . . . . . . . "The author gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race. Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the \"Africanist\" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. She shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. Written with the artistic vision that has earned Toni Morrison a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature." . . . . . . . . . . . . . "al-Lahw fī al-ʻatmah : al-bayāḍ wa-al-makhīlah al-basharīyah" . . . "Playing in the dark blancheur et imagination littéraire" . . . . . . "Whiteness and the literary imagination"@en . . . . . . . . . "Drie essays over de rol van de neger in drie romans van blanke Amerikaanse auteurs: Cather, Poe en Twain." . . . . . . "Mörkt spel : vithet och den litterära fantasin" . "Mörkt spel : vithet och den litterära fantasin"@sv . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Redes (vorm)" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . "Playing in the dark whiteness and the literary imagination"@en . . . "Im Dunkeln spielen : weisse Kultur und literarische Imagination ; Essays" . . "Playing in the dark whiteness and the literary imagination" . . . "Playing in the dark" . . . . . . . "Svarta i amerikansk litteraturhistoria." . . "Littérature américaine Auteurs noirs américains." . . "mustat." . . "Littérature américaine Thèmes, motifs." . . "Roman américain 20ème siècle." . . "Literatura estadounidense Autores negros Historia y crítica." . . "Negers." . . "amerikansk litteratur litteraturanalyser" . . "Schwarze (Motiv)" . . "Motiver (Litteratur)" . . "Geschichte 1938-1986." . . "Geschichte 1938-1986" . "Epik." . . "Schwarze" . . "Schwarze." . "Afro-amerikaner." . . "American literature White authors" . . "Afroamerikanische Literatur USA." . . "Letteratura americana - Autori neri - Storia e criticismo." . . "Raza en la literatura." . . "Història de la literatura." . . "Raser" . . "Race in literature." . . "Race in literature" . "Schwarze (Motiv)" . . "Schwarzenbild." . . "Schwarze." . . "litteraturkritik" . . "LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General" . . "Literatura norteamericana Autores negroamericanos Historia y crítica." . . "sorte" . . "Escriptores afroamericanes." . . "African Americans in literature." . . "African Americans in literature" . "rotusyrjintä." . . "Literatur USA Motiv Rasse." . . "kirjailijat." . . "Amerikaanse letterkunde." . . "Noirs américains Dans la littérature." . . "Noirs américains dans la littérature." . "Escriptors afroamericans." . . "Zwarten." . . "littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) noir (race)" . . "Amerika." . . "Noirs dans la littérature." . . "Noirs Dans la littérature." . "Afro americanos en la literatura." . . "Literatura nord-americana Història i crítica." . . "Rasse Motiv Literatur USA." . . "Ethnicité dans la littérature." . . "Afro-Américain (peuple) littérature américaine (Etats-Unis)" . . "Rassendiscriminatie." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM & COLLECTIONS." . . "Literatura norteamericana Historia y crítica." . . "Letterkunde." . . "Geschichte (1800-1990)" . . "Thematologie." . . "Svarte (Folkegruppe)" . . "Literatur." . . "Vrouwelijke auteurs." . . "kaunokirjallisuus." . . "Literatura nord-americana Escriptors afroamericans." . . "USA." . . "Razze umane nella letteratura." . . "Race dans la littérature." . . "Race Dans la littérature." . "Imagination Dans la littérature." . . "Black in literature." . . "Amerikaans." . . "Littérature américaine Histoire et critique." . . "USA" . . "Razas en la literatura." . . "litterære motiver" . . "Neri nella letteratura." . . "Whites in literature." . . "Whites in literature" . "Negros en la literatura." . . "Neri nella letteratura americana." . . "Literary criticism." . . "kirjallisuus." . . "Literatura estadounidense Autores blancos Historia y crítica." . . "Weibliche Schwarze." . . . . "Literatur USA Motiv Schwarze." . . "Yhdysvallat." . . "Geschichte 1800-1990." . . "Human skin color in literature." . . "Human skin color in literature" . "Blacks in literature." . . "Blacks in literature" .